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What follows now is a fairly complete review of Paul's points in I Cor. 15--along with some additional related observations and so on.

And so, here is the first portion of the text:

I Cor. 15
1Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,
2by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

OK. ...

It seems that without the physical bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, our faith is vain.

Yep.

And it seems also that the Christian faith is absolutely dependent upon it.

And so, let's have Paul tell it:

1 Cor.15
12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Now, this verse indicates that Christ was preached that He rose ...

Now, if Christ's Second Coming is "postmillennial" and so on, then that would mean that DEATH is everywhere on earth before He returns. In other words, that's what the "millennium" is about--DEATH.

Indeed, DEATH is the "last" enemy that Christ is currently ruling over as King right NOW during our current age:

I Cor. 15
23But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming,

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We need to remember that there is considerably more significance to the resurrection of Jesus Christ than that of Lazarus, and it is this: our Lord Jesus Christ is the first and only person who has achieved immortality in this age by resurrection at this time.

In other words, Jesus Christ came specifically to abolish death--and this is what he did at His first coming. And how did Jesus abolish death?

Well, he became immortal.

Yep. ...

One of the fundamentals of the Christian faith is the doctrine of "the" resurrection from the dead.

Here is what Jesus said about it:

Luke 20
34 Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,
35 but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;
36 for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels, and are

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